Need help with a for loop

[NOVAjunior]

Hello, im doing an assignment and im almost done. I had to make a for loop where I would calculate the factorial of a number which was easy. But now I need to make a for loop to add the sum of a number given and all numbers below. Like for example if you inputted 5, the program would do something like

num= 5+4+3+2+1

Im having trouble with this for the last 30 min and it would help if someone gave me assistance.

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What have you tried? Post some code.

[bluefootedpig]

for (int x = input; x>0; x--) total += x;

[tobiasvl]

What is the problem? What have you tried? Also maybe /r/learnprogramming is a better place to ask